Ultra Maniac

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English: Ultramaniac - Magical Girl

Japanese: ウルトラマニアック

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 26

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: May 20, 2003 to Nov 11, 2003

Premiered: Spring 2003

Broadcast: Tuesdays at 22:00 (JST)

Producers: WAO World, Studio Jack

Licensors: Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA

Studios: Production Reed

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Magic, Romance, School, Shoujo

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 7.17¹ (scored by 11,510 users)

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Ranked: #2917²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #3161

Members: 28,284

Favorites: 145

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Ranked #2917Popularity #3161Members 28,284

Spring 2003TVProduction Reed

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Synopsis

Fantasies and miracles never interested Ayu Tateishi, a popular second-year student at her middle school. She was content with preserving her image of being cool, calm, and collected—all to catch the eye of her crush, Tetsushi Kaji. Ayu's carefree youthful days are interrupted by the appearance of Nina Sakura, a new transfer student who turns out to be a witch. As the only person who knows about Nina's ability to cast spells using a mini-computer, Ayu is forced to help Nina with her mission to find the five Holy Stones, qualifying her to marry the prince of the Magic Kingdom.

Unfortunately, Nina's ineptitude with magic and her habit of meddling in Ayu's personal life cause nothing but trouble for the two of them as Ayu toils to maintain her good reputation and Nina struggles to hide her secret from the discerning eye of Hiroki Tsujiai, Tetsushi's best friend and an avid fan of manga. And when Nina's search for the five Holy Stones brings allies and challengers from the Magic Kingdom, Ayu is dragged into a world she never even dreamed was possible.

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Adaptation:	Ultra Maniac
Alternative version:	Ultra Maniac OVA

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Staff

Masaki, Shinichi

Director

Matsuoka, Hiroki

Sound Director

Nakano, Hideaki

Episode Director, Key Animation

Ooba, Hideaki

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

"Kagami no Naka" by can/goo

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Ending Theme

"Hitotsu=Unmei Kyoudoutai" by can/goo

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Reviews

May 1, 2008

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

DragonsWhip (All reviews)

49 people found this review helpful

A good show with a lovely ending

Story
The story starts not too quick, but not too slow. Ayu and Nina are good friends who are attending the same school, but Ayu is the only one who knows that Nina is a witch from the Magic Kingdom. However, Nina isn't really good at magic and that's why she came to this world. Of course there's a boy that Ayu likes, Kaji. The show views Ayu's and Nina's daily life around school, magic, love, etcetera. It doesn't sound that original and that's true, but it has good point and that's why this show immediately grabbed me from the read more

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Feb 8, 2008

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Choto (All reviews)

25 people found this review helpful

Okay this is my first review ok here i go.

Ultra Maniac is a really good anime, its a great rom com anime not like those cheesy romance ones. What makes this anime twice as great is the fact that it involves fantasy, drama and romance which really pulls you into the story. One of the good points of its story is that very often more and more new characters join the story and old characters may reveal secrets about themselves that were previously unkown.That is probably what pulls most watchers more and more into the show. The only thing i didnt like about the anime read more

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Mar 21, 2020

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

LostNomad4471 (All reviews)

4 people found this review helpful

Ultra maniac is a rare kind of anime. An anime that's so bad it's funny. It fails in every category, but it fails in such a hilarious way that it's just so much fun to hate.

Story 1/10

The most obvious problem with this anime is it has a really unoriginal premise. Seriously, I can name at least a dozen TV shows (not just anime) where it's just another fish out of water story that has a main character whose a witch (or an alien, a robot, a goddess, a vampire, etc.) whose going to a school for humans and has to adjust to her new read more

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Aug 29, 2008

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Yemi_Hikari (All reviews)

9 people found this review helpful

STORY

This is another Magical Girl series that deals with two girls race to get a covited position in their society by going to the human world, but it is refreshing as it really isn't revealed until later that this is what is going on. Also, the ending is a nice twist to the whole plot line that one gets from these race series, it is in fact the ending that makes it unique from them. It is also very comedic.

ART

The art is very acurate and detailed. In this one, the middle schoolers actually look to be the age of middle schoolers, which some Anime's made read more

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